Radical Trust: Presentation and Blogger Meet Up
April 14th, 2007 by Jim SpadacciniYesterday, Seb Chan from Powerhouse Museum and I presented our paper, Radical Trust: The State of the Museum Blogosphere at the Museums and the Web conference. Following the presentation we had a lunchtime meet up and discussion about the future of museums and blogging. It was nice meet many of the folks beyond the blogs that I’m so familiar with. Here’s a round up of resources and posts from the session.
- Radical Trust: The State of the Museum Blogosphere (the paper on the MW 2007 site)
- Our presentation in PDF format radicaltrust.pdf (800k)
- Live blogging of the session by Nate Schroeder at the Walker Art Center’s New Media Initiatives Blog.
Following our lunch I was thinking that this will likely be the last time we can easily survey the museum blogosphere since its growth has accelerated so dramatically in recent months. A big part of our presentation focused on the changes we’ve seen just since the December survey! You can see for yourself over at MuseumBlogs where there are now 139 blogs listed. Back in December when we conducted our original survey there were 95. What’s next for the museum blogosphere? Perhaps we can continue that conversation on our various blogs.
(Update: There’s a discussion underway on the Walker New Media Blog about the session and museum blogging in general. Questacon Online has a post about the session and bloggers meet up and more. There’s also much more about the Museums and the Web Conference at Fresh + New, I’m in Ur Museum Website…, and of course the conference blog has a number of posts about various presentations and events.)
April 15th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Many thanks, Jim, for your wonderful lecture and for sharing with us the paper, the presentation and your insights. It was also a pleasure the bloggers’ lunch!
Does anyone have some photos of the meet up?
April 16th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Pilar,
It was great fun. I just wish we had more time! I didn’t even get a chance to meet everyone. Lynn Bethke has posted some photos on her blog at:
http://museumblogthesis.blogspot.com/2007/04/mw2007-days-2.html
Jim
April 20th, 2007 at 8:47 am
At our blogging workshop I promoted Google Analytics as a way museums could easily track user stats and at the same time standardize on a single stats package. I’m considering setting up a Museum Blog profile in GA and letting museum bloggers add their blogs to it, and start tracking their blogs stats. It would be pretty easy for people to add to their blogs (just have to add it to their blog template’s footer), and it would let all of us compare notes on the relative success of the museum blog world, beyond just Technorati rankings. No idea how useful this info would be but given how easy it is to set up, I would think something interesting could come of it.
Also here’s a photo I took at our Blogger’s lunch:
http://flickr.com/photos/vitaflo/459463917/
May 19th, 2007 at 11:58 am
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